WARM NEAR POLE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10920, 11 June 1929, Page 3

WARM NEAR POLE

NORTHERN WIND SENDS- TEMPERATURE UP 65 DEGREES.

LIFE WITH THE BYRD

EXPEDITION

CREW PUTTING ON FLESH

(Australian Press Association.)

(Copyright 1929 by the New York Times Co. and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) (Ry wireless to the New York Times) (By Russell Owenh (Received June 10, 8 p.im) BAY OF WHALES, June 9.

There has been a remarkable- fluc-tuation-oil thermometer changes of 6,5 degrees, from 48 degrees below zero to 16 degree.-, above. This warm temperature was caused by a wind from the north, which brought tho heaviest snowfall we had for some time. It felt queer to have our loot sink into snowdrifts again, because drifts are usually formed by . high winds and snow packs, so hard that one’s foot hardly makes any impression on it.

An overcast <sk,v for a fortnightmade it dark and d-fficult to walk any distance. Everyone is well, however, and so far the Polar night has not caused either discomfort or irritability-. There is only a fortnight to midwinter, when the- sun will begin the journey back again, but our coldest time comes in July or August. We- weighed ourselves on the' scale the other day, and we found, much to our amusement, that nearly everyone in tho Bvrd expedition was getting fat. Several men tipped tho scales at between 12st. 21b. and 15st. It is all George Te-nnantls fault. Our cook has so many tricks and ways of fixing seal meat or whale cutlets, that lie makes nearly everyone like them. The seal is as black as can be, but tender, and with very little fisti taste to it. and when George has some left over lie fixes it up so that it looks like stewed truffles, and tastes like nothing on earth that one ever ate before, but it is good, (lurried whale can he palatable even if it suggests whale too strongly and when one begins to crave for something else- George will produce bam or roast pork or mutton stew. The dehydrated beans actually taste like string beans, and some oilier vegetables are very good.